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Why is Pakistan making India a key figure in its dispute with the Taliban? | India-Pakistan Tensions News

Islamabad, Pakistan – On October 28 after negotiators from Pakistan and Afghanistan hit a wall in talks to extend their fragile ceasefire after deadly border clashes, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif blamed a third country that wasn’t even present during the dialogue: India. In a television interview, Asif claimed that India had “penetrated” the Afghan Taliban…

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Engage the Taliban, don’t recognise them

As the saying goes, the enemy’s enemy is a friend. When the Afghan Taliban were an insurgency, they were clients of the Pakistani military establishment. Now, they are the state in Afghanistan. Their return to power in Kabul also brought back old fissures between Pakistan and Afghanistan, two neighbours divided by a disputed 2,640-kilometre border,…

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Pakistan and the Taliban’s uneasy peace | Taliban News

Pakistan and Taliban-led Afghanistan have agreed to a ceasefire after some of the worst cross-border violence in years. Relations have soured over Islamabad’s accusation that Kabul is aiding the Pakistan Taliban in attacks against the Pakistani military – a claim Kabul denies. With deep mistrust and armed groups still active, can the fragile peace between…

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